Index-card holder



W. HERTZBERG.

tNDEX. CARD HOLDER.

APPLXCATION FILED FEB" 23, 1922.

1,422,973, Patented July 18, 1922.

WILLIAM HERTZBERG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

INDEX-CARI) HOLDER.

Application filed February 23, 1922.

T 0 (M whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLiAM Hnnrzcnne, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Index-Card Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is concerned generally with metal index card holders, and more particularly with holders for cards used especially for indicating the different sizes and styles of garments, such as suits, etc., in an effective manner, thus enabling a selection to be conveniently made without the unnecessary handling of the garments.

The invention aifords practical and efli oient means for indicating various sizes, styles and prices of suits or equivalent articles, facilitating the selection of the suits both by the salesman and customer, it being well known that the ordinary method of selecting suits is open to a number of objections, as for example, the necessity for unnecessarily handling the suits, the confusion attendant to the mixing of various sizes and styles of suits, and the like.

It is the primary object of this invention to provide a holder formed of twisted wire and having novel means for holding cards of any size and for balancing itself when in use.

A further object is to provide a holder for cards which is simple and inexpensive to manufacture and which will be practical, serviceable and convenient in use.

The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing in which it is illustrated and in which-- Figure I is a View in perspective of the improved holder for carts used with a rack for garments.

Figure 11 is a view in perspective on a large scale of the card holder.

Figure 111 is a detail front elevation of the card holding clip.

Figure IV is a detail side elevation of the clip shown in Figure III.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the various views.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a rack rod a which is usually mounted fixedly on standards, not shown, or which may be mounted slidably in a cabinet. Carried by this rod are a plurality of clothes hangers Z2. The invention is not concerned Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

Serial No. 538,654.

with the rack rod and hangers thus far described, but with means for indicating the size, style or price of a particular garment or group of garments. F or this purpose, a display card holder o is provided. This holder as illustrated in the drawings is bent at a point adjacent its middle portion indicated at c to form a seat which loosely but firmly embraces the rod a. By reason of this construction, the holder can be readily placed on, removed from or slid along the rod.

The upper end of the holder which extends above the bar is provided with means formed integrally therewith for holding cards to indicate the size, price, style or other information for convenience in selecting the garment. As illustrated clearly in Figures HI and IV, the card holding means is formed of the wire itself. It will be seen that one of the free ends of the wire terminates at the point indicated at 0 while the other free end of the wire is extended upwardly and bent'in the form of a ring or loop 0 and bent again to form another loop 0*. By reason of this construction, a spring clip having a narrow space 0 is provided for holding firmly but removably a card 03 con taining any desired information.

The other end of the holder extending below the bar is weighted as indicated at 0 by coiling the wire about the loop 0 This weight tends to maintain the holder in a vertical position with the card holding means held an appreciable distance above the garments and also above the rod.

It will be noted that the holder is formed of a single piece of twisted wire. This may be conveniently done by taking a single piece of wire, holding the two free ends together and twisting the wire about itself until the whole piece is twisted and a loop is formed at the end opposite the free ends. A weight is then formed by coiling the wire around the said loop in a spiral. The twisted wire is next bent into S-shape to form a holder of three parallel portions, said portions being joined by U-shaped bends. ,One of the free ends of the wire is then formed as a clip for holding the cards.

It will be noted that all the parts of the holder including the counter weight are disposed in the same plane, and take up only an unappreciable space on the bar. It will also be noted that there are no free or rough edges or joints which may injure the garments, the free ends of the wire being removed l'rom the garments in protected position.

I claim as my invention:

1. A display card holder formed of a single piece of twisted wire, a seat formed adjacent the middle portion of said wire to embrace a rod for supporting garment hangers, aclip formed integrally with the wire at one end for holding a card, and a weight formed by coiling said wire at the opposite end for balancing the holder on the rod.

2. A display card holder formed of wire adapted to be engaged with a bar for clothes hangers and disposed in a plane at right angles to said bar, a clip formed on its upper end for holding the card at right angles to the bar and a weight formed at its lower end by coiling the wire.

3. A display card holder formed of a sin gle and continuous piece of wire twisted about itself and bent to form three parallel vertical rods arranged in the same plane and joined by two U shaped bends, one of the outer Vertical rods having a spring clip at its upper end to hold a card, and the other outer rod having a weight at its lower end.

4-. As an article of manufacture, a display card holder comprising a wire bent at its middle portion to form a seat an upwardly extending portion above said seat, said latter portion terminating in a fiat clip for holding a cardfand a downwardly extending portion below the seat terminating in a flat weight, said upwardly and downwardly extending portions forming a substantially fiat structure adapted for insertion between closely spaced parallel planes.

This specification signed this 21st day of February, 19:22.

lVILLIAM HERTZBERG. 

